News 25/6/2019 Wemos’ voting advice in response to recent debate on medicines policy Members of the Dutch Parliaments’ committee on Health, Welfare and Sport had a debate on medicines policy in The Netherlands. Read more
News 17/5/2019 Our report praised as ‘inspiring’ in Dutch SDGs report In the third edition of the Dutch Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) report, published this month, our Malawi country report was mentioned as one “inspiring example” of how the SDGs are taking shape by civil society. Read more
News 17/5/2019 An evening in de Rode Hoed about big pharma, concerns and hope “A collective stranglehold”. This is how the debate moderator Martijn de Greve described the current pharmaceutical system during last night’s debate ‘Pharma’s Other Futures’ in the Rode Hoed. Read more
News 10/5/2019 Overpriced drugs developed with tax money Overpriced – Drugs developed with Dutch public funding, a report published today jointly by The Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) and Wemos, examines the extent of Dutch public funding of drug development, through donations, loans and/or investments. Read more
News 8/5/2019 This is how the EU & Dutch government can achieve equal access to medicines Why are (some) medicines so expensive? How are medicines developed in the Netherlands, and how does this system contribute to unequal access to medicines? Read more
News 24/4/2019 EU medicines manifesto: put the health of European citizens first There is increasing pressure on access to affordable, innovative medicines for many European citizens. Change is urgently needed. Read more
News 19/3/2019 40 years of commitment to global health 40 years ago today, a group of medical students united to focus on global public health. Since then, we have grown into an international lobbying organisation that is strongly committed to advocating the right to health for all. Read more
Blog 19/3/2019 19 March 1979 – the start of Wemos In early March 1979, I – Wilbert Bannenberg, an intern doctor at the time – put a notice on the bulletin board of the Faculty of Medicine at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. I was looking for other students with whom to discuss working as a doctor in low- and middle-income countries. Read more
News 14/1/2019 Our highlights of 2018 The start of the new year calls for some reflection. This is why we have compiled an overview of our highlights of 2018. We are proud of the results of our work for health for all. Have a look! Read more